Education Activities
The IMA runs a wide range of mathematical activities through The Higher Education Services Area and The Schools and Further Education Group committees.
The IMA operates a Programme Approval Scheme, which provides an 'approval in principle' for degree courses that meet the educational requirements for Chartered Mathematician. For programmes to be approved, the IMA requires the programme to be a honours degree of at least three years length, which meets the required mathematical content threshold of two thirds. The programmes also need to meet the QAA benchmark for Mathematics and the Framework for High Education Qualification.
The IMA provides Education Grants of up to £600 to allow individuals from the UK working in schools or Further/Higher Education to help with the attendance at or the organisation of a mathematics educational activity such as attendance at a conference, expenses to cover a speaker coming into a school, organising a session for a conference.
The IMA also employs a University Liaison Officer to promote mathematics and the IMA to university students undertaking mathematics and help act as a means of support. As part of this support the IMA runs the University Liaison Grants Scheme to provide university mathematical societies with grants of up to £400 to organise more activities and work more closely with the IMA.
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